Photo Challenge Week 1 (G35Driver.com) – Bottle(s)
The theme for the week of the G35Driver.com weekly photo challenge was Bottle(s). I decided to take this opportunity to really think out what image I wanted to portray. What size bottle? Color? Shape? A bottle can be simple and elegant, colorful and elaborate.. Did I want to capture more functionality or art?
Well of course I had plenty of questions in my head but then it came to me. I wanted to take a commercial shot. Like really try and make it look like it was for a magazine spread. I even took the time to make a product box. This gave me the opportunity to really experiment with my flashes off camera.
After tampering with the flashes position, I finally settled on a traditional 1 flash highlighting the background, and my main flash overhead to highlight the product. This gave me that really clean, high-pass, vibrant look that I was after.
I placed the subject to the left of the frame as if it were going to have typography on the right side of the "ad". I also added a bit of allure and mood by splashing some water on the bottle and letting it pool at the foot of the bottle. This was added to give the viewer someting interesting to think about througout the journey down the bottle. The reflection was due to plastic laid down at the bottom of the product box.
I'd say for my first product box shot, this turned out pretty well and exactly how I intended..
Canon 7D
Tamron 28-75
ISO200
F10
50mm
1/200
canon 430EX II (1/8)
canon 550EX (1/4)
onboard flash (-1) exposure comp
